Algeria

Algeria

Population: 33.3 million
GNI: $101200 million
Debt: $16400 million
Overview: Government reconciliation efforts have not stemmed the number or magnitude of terrorist attacks. Al Qaida's local affiliate pledges to step up attacks as President Abdelaziz Bouteflika prepares for a constitutional referendum and an eventual third term run in 2009.

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  • Vol 44 No 21
  • 24/10/2003

Split parties, stout leaders

President Bouteflika looks vulnerable ahead of the elections as politicians fall out

  • Vol 44 No 10
  • 16/05/2003

Domestic politics at last

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's 5 May decision to end months of political sniping by sacking his former campaign manager turned political rival, Ali Benflis, has allowed Algerians to refocus on domestic politics in the run-up to the presidential election...

  • Vol 44 No 7
  • 04/04/2003

Boom to bust

The collapse of Abdelmoumen Rafik Khalifa's El Khalifa Group (EKG) has seen investors mobbing banks in search of their savings, French intelligence leaks about power brokers' roles in EKG's rise - plus a local aviation crisis.

  • Vol 44 No 5
  • 07/03/2003

Minister in peril

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika basks in the glow of an unprecedented visit from French President Jacques Chirac, welcomed as a hero on 2-4 March after his standoff with the United States over Iraq. Meanwhile, Boutef's friend and high-profile Energy and Mi...

  • Vol 43 No 14
  • 12/07/2002

Bouteflika digs in

The President is pleased with the polls but hasn't yet won the war

  • Vol 43 No 11
  • 31/05/2002

Fixing it up

The Islamist vote at the legislative elections on 30 May will show whether President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has really transformed Algerian politics. Until the last minute, many electors were still debating whether to vote: a high abstention rate could only...

  • Vol 43 No 6
  • 22/03/2002

Algeria's growing military machine

Algeria's progress against the Islamist underground was confirmed by the killing last month of Antar Zouabri, the leader of the Groupe Islamique Armé. This was a coup for the ambitious commander of the First Military Region, General Fodil Cherif, a...

  • Vol 43 No 2
  • 25/01/2002

L'arbitraire

In a watershed vote on 15 January, the French parliament declared 19 March a day of commemoration of the victims of the Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian independence struggles. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, fresh from courting the United States for milit...

  • Vol 42 No 23
  • 23/11/2001

Sweeping away

Floods made large parts of Algiers a sea of mud on 10 November. They were a nightmare for ordinary citizens, many of whom dug out neighbours with their bare hands - and for Algeria's leaders, who again seemed incapable of responding adequately to crisis.

  • Vol 42 No 12
  • 15/06/2001

One musketeer

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has again threatened to resign as Kabyle protests mobilise hundreds of thousands of demonstrators and rival power-brokers enfeeble his presidency.

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